Sewing with Mom

My mom and dad were in town this past week.  My mom and I worked on several sewing projects together!  After it took me 2 hours of studying the manual to figure out how to thread my new machine on my own, it was so nice to have my mom there to show me some techniques from using my rotary cutter to pivoting fabric with the needle down on my machine.  We had fun and I learned a lot!  I'm much more comfortable using my machine now.  Thanks, Mom!

Here are some pictures of what we made:

We made 2 bibs for Drew out of fingertip towels.  The other bibs I was using were TINY on him and barely covered his whole shirt.  We bought these fingertip towels for $2-3 at Home Goods.  We cut out the neckline and zig zag stitched around it.  We wrote out the letters for Drew's name (backwards) and stuck Wonder Under adhesive paper to it.  Then we cut out the letters and ironed them onto the towel.  Finally I zig zag stitched around each letter.  My sewing machine will make a buttonhole and sew the button on.  Pretty cool!

The Boo bib was a Halloween towel that already had a ghost stitched on it.  I wrote BOO! on the bib and then zig zag stitched on top of the letters.  Luckily Halloween stuff with wiggly letters is considered scary in a good way!

We also made a pin cushion and bag that I can use to toss pieces of thread or fabric that I snip while sewing.  My mom has one of these on her sewing table and when I started sewing I knew I wanted one, too!  The fabric we used is really cute--it has sewing machines, embroidery hoops, knitting needles and yarn on it--all of my favorite crafty supplies!